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  • Another busy year ahead?

    It is not only the staff at RMIT Labs who have been busy, virus writers worked hard too.

  • The key to network security

    Senior leadership wants objective measurement; peer managers don't understand that their participation is necessary; users continually do foolish things; the threats are changing daily; and many organisations are forced to do more with fewer people. Is it any wonder that security managers are overworked and overwhelmed?

  • 'Redesi' worm reformats hard drives

    A worm disguising itself as a security patch for Microsoft products will in fact reformat the victim's C: drive. The Redesi worm spreads by e-mail under a number of guises, and is set to trigger on November 11, 2001. But not all PCs are vulnerable to the worst of its effects, and there is an easy way to stop the damage.

  • 'Stages' worms into Australian university

    Despite regular updates to its anti-virus software, the University of Southern Queensland suffered at the handiwork of the Stages worm, which flooded the campus' e-mail systems and infected as many as 180 desktop machines.

  • Hawking cyberinsurance

    Insurance companies are busy trying to alert organisations nationwide about the potential havoc cyberoutlaws can wreak and urging potential customers to consider a product still in its infancy: insurance to cover an array of computer-security risks.

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  • 10 tips for helping users keep Outlook data secure

    Your users probably understand the importance of safeguarding the data on their computers. But they don't always realise that some of that data is contained in Outlook. Here are a few suggestions you can share with them to help them protect that Outlook data.

  • Turning script kiddies into real programmers

    How can you interest young people in the noble professions of programming and computer security while discouraging the glamorous world of illegal hacking? It's not easy.

  • Internet Lockdown: quick security overview

    Internet Lockdown, a new book by Tim Crothers, covers security for systems, networks, and applications as well as the Internet.

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